March 10, 2015 12:42 PM UTC

Get More Smarter on Tuesday (March 10)

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It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example).

TOP OF MIND TODAY…

► Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner is among 47 Republican Senators who signed a letter to Iran in a bizarre attempt to undercut the Obama Administration in talks over a nuclear agreement. This was really, really, really not a good idea.

► Congressman Scott Tipton (R-Cortez) says that Republicans in Congress do NOT want to repeal Obamacare. Tipton’s remarks came during a speaking engagement with the Glenwood Springs Chamber Resort Association on Monday.

► Wait just a minute…Rep. Scott Tipton really said that Congressional Republicans do NOT want to repeal Obamacare? House Republicans have cast some 60 votes to repeal Obamacare since 2011, with the most recent vote coming last month.

Get even more smarter after the jump…

SHOULD YOU FIND YOURSELF STANDING NEAR A WATER COOLER…

► The Senate Finance Committee will hear arguments today on continuing a Teen Pregnancy and Dropout Prevention Pilot Program first adopted in 1995. The legislation to continue the program, HB-1079, has already passed through the House.

► State Sen. Larry Crowder (R-Alamosa) “wants the ladies to stay pretty.”

► Hillary Clinton is scheduled to hold a press conference today to address her use of email during her time as Secretary of State.

► Senator Michael Bennet (D-Denver) is urging the federal government to move forward in determining whether it will agree to provide a Federal Reserve System bank account for a “pot-only credit union.”

► We’re just going to come out and say it: Bob Beauprez might be an animatronic robot that escaped from Showbiz Pizza before Chuck-E-Cheese took over. Somebody needs to update Robo-Bob with the “irony” learning module.

OTHER LINKS YOU SHOULD CLICK

► Are Congressional Republicans doomed to be forever dysfunctional? Perhaps, says former White House senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer:

“There’s very little we can do to change the Republicans’ political situation because they are worried about a cohort of voters who disagree with most of what the president says. We don’t have the ability to communicate with them—we can’t even break into the tight communication circles to convince them that climate change is real. They are talking to people who agree with them, they are listening to news outlets that reinforce that point of view, and the president is probably the person with the least ability to break into that because of the partisan bias there.”

► State Rep. Gordon “Dr. Chaps” Klingenschmitt compares Planned Parenthood to the terrorist group known as ISIS (or ISIL, or whatever). Is Dr. Chaps is cutting back on the ridiculous rhetoric? After all, it’s been more than 6 months since he said Congressman Jared Polis wants to behead America’s Christians.

► Colorado Republicans continue to push to repeal a high-capacity magazine ban approved by the legislature in 2013. It’s not going to work.

► Michael Carrigan, a current CU Regent and former senior deputy district attorney in Denver, looks at the legal (and moral) problems with so-called “Right to Discriminate” laws.

ICYMI

► Democratic Reps. Sue Ryden and Rhonda Fields will both run for the state senate seat being vacated by term-limited Senate Minority Leader Morgan Carroll.

► Former Denver Broncos tight end Julius Thomas is expected to sign a free agent contract with the Jacksonville Jaguars.

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